
By Kirk White

last modified: September 7, 2012

This README files describes the following 7 files:

BEAeastructure.csv
BEA_fixed_assets_csv.csv
gkheq.csv
gkhst.csv
nkceq.csv
nkcst.csv 
bea_naics.sas7bdat:  Contains nkceq, nkcst, gkheq, gkhst for 2002-2007.  
                     Created by create_BEA_capital_file.sas.


The file BEAeastructure.csv contains BEA Component Economic Areas (CEA) codes, mapped to state and county FIPS codes. 
The file also includes the state and county names and the CEA names.
I downloaded this file from the BEA's website on August 21, 2012. 


I downloaded the BEA_fixed_assets_csv.csv file from the BEA website on August 28, 2012.
It contains stocks of private fixed assets for all industries/sectors for 1947-2011.
The table headers in the file itself provide more detailed descriptions.
The next 4 files are extracted from BEA_fixed_assets_csv.csv.  All for are for only manufacturing
industries, mostly NAICS3, but some NAICS3 and NAICS4 groups:

gkheq.csv -- Historical-Cost Net Stock of Private Equipment and Software by Industry (from BEA table 3.3E)
gkhst.csv -- Historical-Cost Net Stock of Private Structures by Industry (BEA table 3.3S)
nkceq.csv -- Current-Cost Net Stock of Private Equipment and Software by Industry (BEA table 3.1E)
nkcst.csv -- Current-Cost Net Stock of Private Structures by Industry (BEA table 3.1S)

The BEA's descriptions were converted into NAICS codes using a concordance provided in 
"Local Area Personal Income and Employment Methodology" (April 2010) [www.bea.gov/regional/pdf/lapi2008/lapi2008.pdf].

I also did the following:

1. Added a "y" to the name of the year columns, because SAS variable names can't begin with a number.
2. Added a row with with "line"=999 , X's in the Industry_Desc_BEA and BEA_NAICS columns, and 1's in the year columns.

